Revealed! Ben Vereen Is A Bigamist!

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This story is so bizarre, you can’t make this stuff up! Ben Vereen, the Tony Award-winning actor is divorcing his wife of 51 years….only problem is he’s spend the last 36 years illegally married to another woman! The New York Post is reporting, Vereen wasn’t aware he was still married to his first wife at the time,  “Perhaps, Mr. Vereen will see another movie opportunity here.” said Harold Mayerson, the lawyer for Vereen’s first, and still current, wife, Andrea.

Soooooo, here’s how according to Chicken George you can have two wives at the same time and NOT know it. The “Pippin’’ star  married Andrea in Cecil County, Md., in February 1965, according to court papers He was 19 and she was 14 AND pregnant.  Ben, now 69, claims that he filed for divorce in New York in 1972, after seven years of marriage, and moved to LA thinking that the marriage was officially dissolved, sources said.

“Their divorce proceedings started in the early ’70s,” a source close to Vereen stated, saying he filed in 1972 and she submitted papers in 1974.“There were no electronic records at that time, nor was there Internet. They both assumed that this was behind them. Vereen, who won best actor in a musical at the Tonys in 1973 for ‘Pippin’ and who played Chicken George in the TV miniseries “Roots” then married Nancy Bruner in 1976. Court papers show he filed to split from her in 2012.

Ok here’s where it get’s juicy, Andrea Vereen says she never filed for divorce and was never served any papers after he walked on her and their child!  She submitted the papers but never filed them. Still, she figured they were officially split after he left, sources said….told you this story was crazy!

Andrea, a Pentecostal minister, learned they were still officially man and wife only when she went to file for Social Security at age 65 in Brooklyn in January and listed herself as divorced, only to be told there was no proof of that, sources said. She phoned Vereen, who immediately filed for divorce, sources said.

The long estranged couple arrived at Brooklyn Supreme Court on Thursday, avoiding one another by standing at opposite ends of a long hallway.

Andrea is seeking alimony and “equitable’’ property distribution, as well as lawyers’ fees…..wonder how much she is asking for after 51 years of “marriage” and that whole bigamist thing?

While she arrived with her niece and other friends for support, the actor-dancer, who flew in from California, showed with his agent, Pamela Cooper. Andrea and Vereen declined comment.

Vereen’s lawyer, John DiMascio, said, “This is a personal matter.”

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